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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1886
Page
6
A Missouri speaker recounts decades of farming reforms emphasizing soil care, shelter, and manure. He details converting barren land into productive dairy farms, the rise of clover, manure-driven yields, and building barns for eighty cows, arguing dairy drives farm prosperity and underpins livelihoods.
Dr Mott of Bellevue Hospital College gives unconditional endorsement to Speer's Wines, recommending their use for consumptives and weak women. It cannot be procured from any drug store in the country. Also notes New York belles wearing violet girdles to dinners and a cigar trend with an exchange remark.
A Lady Professor of Cooking argues that cooking should be an art taught with cheer, noting clumsy cookery causes dyspepsia. The ad urges Brown's Iron Bitters as a cure for dyspepsia, claiming it improves health and cheer. Levi Pearce of Ellicott City, Md, backs the remedy with reported relief and debility reduction.
The Macon and Dublin railroad company secured the contract to grade the Dublin and Macon line from Jeffersonville to Macon a twenty mile stretch. Work will begin Monday with about 400 laborers. Talks continue with Covington and Macon regarding a junction at Boggy Branch near McCall’s mill, with both trains likely to use the same route into the city.
In San Francisco a 19 year old cigar maker bought a lottery ticket for his beer girl. She won $15,000 and the winner must marry the suitor to settle ownership. Also noted is a Talbot county mother of eight educating her children at home, praised as bright and dedicated.
A garbled 19th century clipping claims experiences of a Christian editor and a minister. It mentions Dr. Mosley, fevers, dyspepsia, and a medicine sold for ten dollars per bottle. Names include Rev. 0, 6. Daves, and H. Megey in Atlanta. The text blends religious commentary with medical advertisements.
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